What's your school's curriculum like?

[AngelEyes82]

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What's your school's curriculum like? Do you guys cover the basic sciences for a little bit first or do you go hard-core into therapeutics/clinical classes right off the bat? Also, if there was one thing that you could change about your curriculum or the way your classes are structured, what would it be?

 

[genesis09]

At UIC, the purpose of P1 year is to put everyone on the same page. It is mostly basic sciences. We've taken a health systems class, Physiology and pathophysiology, Medicinal Chemistry, Biochemistry, Pharmaceutics, Experential 1, and Pharmacokinetics. We don't start taking therapeutics until fall of P2 year. We have had a small discussion of some OTCs in Experential 1.
With regards to my opinion about the curriculum, it is okay. I do know they are in the midst of changing the curriculum, but I don't think it will effect me.